[pagal]

What’s happening with bbPress :@

I’m going to hate bbPress as plugin. Nobody is active here anymore who loves stanalone.

Cris have gone, _ck_ gone, kev, BenL now even Zearl is not listening to people.

— I often visit bbshowcase site. People write questions there, but _ck_ show her attitude. She is no more dedicated. I think I should die now!!

bbPress 2.0 You’re such a loser! That’s all I’m feeling now.

[Ramiuz]

In phpMYadmin I can browse both databases which are both the child of localhost.

Can I mark all BBpress stuff, and export it to a file, and import that into the WordPress database?

Will that work?

And if it works, will the users and posts be visible in my other BBPress installation on the wordpress database then? Or will they still need to be converted? Cause I see all the users and different values have “BB_” infront of them, while the WordPress users and values have “WP_” infront of them.

Is that what needs to be changed? The three characters in the beginning of everything?

[Ramiuz]

What do you mean? Move what tables over?

Can I install BBConverter, import my BBpress 1.02 installation to backup file, and export it to a BBPRess 2.0 installation on a different database? That should work right?

IS there no option in BBPRess 2.0 to select database? If not, there really should be.

That would be very easy, to just install BBPress 2.0 through WordPress as is, and go into the admin panel and select : Database – Select Database – Option 2 – Would you like to import existing users and discussions into BBPress? – Yes/No

[gloomis120]

Is it possible to NOT have it redirect to wp-admin if a forum user enters the wrong login/password? This seems like a bug. Ive tried it on other BBPress 2.0+ installs and get the same results.

[zofar143x]

Is there a way to alter the permalink structure of bbpress in order to make the permalinks the same as the structure that is being displayed in the breadcrumbs? It has been discussed over here:

BBpress is not a search engine friendly forum

However, the recommended plugin “Nicer Permalinks” doesn’t work with 2.1. Is there any other way to change it?

Just to clarify, currently when viewing a topic it’s being displayed in the breadcrumbs like this:

Home › forum › General › This is a test post

but the actual link is:

url.com/forum/topic/this-is-a-test-post

I would like the URL to be:

url.com/forum/general/this-is-a-test-post

ps: “general” is the name of one of the forums

[Keith Kelly]

I am not sure if anything was figured out on this, but I gave up on the Pagelines theme and created my own child theme based on the BuddyPress default theme.

Now I have that extra control I needed to create a more fluid and mobile friendly design.

Thanks for the help. I am going to mark this as resolved.

[Andre]

There’s not an easy way to do it yet because there isn’t a shortcode to display the latest topics. I’m sure there’s a way to code it, but I haven’t looked into how to do that.

Also, bbpress.org doesn’t uses bbpress 2.x yet.

[surrealalien]

This is about this site, more than bbpress itself, but I cant add comments to any Plugins on here. A number of plugins are either not working with the latest version of bbpress, or im unable to download at all. Some plugins have comments that are a week or 3 old – so how come I cant post comments?

[CaptainN2]

I just tried “Math Comment Spam Protection Plugin” as suggested in another thread, but sadly, the input field does not appear on the forum post pages.

I forgot to mention another issue I’ve had – bbpress doesn’t get along with wp-super-cache – is there any easy way to get around that (disable the cache just for the forums tree for example)?

[CaptainN2]

Hi,

I just restored a very old bbpress 1.x install to use bbpress 2.0 plugin, and it worked great! Thanks so much.

There are a few issues though, that I could use help with. Here they are:

1. I’m getting a ton of spam. Some of these get caught by akizmet, but most get through, and there’s no way to do a “rescan for spam” thing like there is in wordpress comments. Is there any way to clean this up, to reduce the spam (I’ll continue to troll the forums to find solutions, but I’m not sure how most of the suggestions there work, until I know how registration and new topics work)?
2. If not logged in, I can’t see any way to post to the forum, or any register links in the forum area. Is a setting for this (I have it set at defaults, only registered users can post, and anyone can register), or do I have to add theme support? (I’m using 2011.)
3. Does registration go through normal WP reg process? I can’t find it from the forums, but the spam bots sure can!
4. there is no preview button – here or in my forum – I hope the formatting I put in here works!

On an unrelated note, I couldn’t get my old account to work here on bbpress.org (CaptainN) – When I try to log in it says my username doesn’t exist. But I can’t register with either my old username, or old email – they both exist! Also, when I start the reset password process, I get the link to click, but when I click on it, it says I can’t change my password.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

Kevin N.

[CaptainJustice]

This is a fresh install of the bbpress plugin on a WP 3.2.1 multi-site. The Author role cannot see either the list of topics in the sidebar widget, or the topics themselves. All forums and topics are public.

An Author can see the forums list, access forums and sub-forums, but clicking a forum with topics will yield a page indicating the number of topics and then:

Oh bother! No topics were found here!

The Administrator confirms the topics are there. I’ve even globally edited all forums and topics and set status to public.

Have used the User Role Editor to add privileges to Authors to read and edit edit all posts and forums.

I had installed the User Access Manager to try to give protection to pages and posts but have uninstalled it. I fear something may be a leftover protection.

Looking at the database at one of the entries, the Post Status is “inherit” versus “publish” — is that an issue?

I’m stuck. New at this, but fairly conversant with WP basics. Help!

gil

[hscoder]

Check this:

http://www.authorcode.com/forums/topic/how-to-show-bbpress-forum-on-blog-front-page/

[kevinvaughn]

Hello,

Does anyone know if there is an easy way to export a forum (all topics, replies and users if necessary) and import it into another bbPress site – essentially move the forum to another site?

I am using the letest version of bbPress plugin on both sites.

Thanks in advance for any help…

[Mr. Salas]

Hello,

i used wp 3.2.1 and a theme called wp-basis,

but after installing bbpress no Forum content is visible.

There is some generated forum-text in the header of the site

“<meta name=”description” content=”Topic: DISKUSSION ZUM FILM …etc”

below is the code of my header.php

“<meta name=”description” content=”<?php if ( is_single() ) { wp_title(‘-‘, true, ‘right’); echo strip_tags( get_the_excerpt() ); } elseif ( is_page() ) { wp_title(‘-‘, true, ‘right’); echo strip_tags( get_the_excerpt() ); } else { bloginfo(‘description’); } ?>” />”

i hope somebody can help.

thx and kind regards

Daniel

[JohannesAltnas]

I have started a forum at my webbsite but the web theme colors makes the text impossible to read, how do I change the forum colors?

[tosteri]

I have made a new forum.php and edited it as instructed here:

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/theme-compatibility-plugin-wont-recognize-my-custom-full-width-template

But it seems that this same template is used in forum AND in topic views. I’ve edited the file to function as a forum startup page, but I would like the Topic-pages to have a slightly different look. Renaming to topic.php or topic-single.php does not seem to work.

These files are located in my theme folder. How do I name the single topic template file, for bbp to recognise it?

[Philip John]

I blogged about this little tweak too and someone has just posted an edit to display a friendly message instead of the standard “not found” which sort of completes it

http://philipjohn.co.uk/2011/11/14/hiding-bbpress-topics-from-logged-out-users/#comment-1885

[ihilgefort]

Hi,

these might be basic questions.. sorry about that.

So I installed the bbpress 2 plug-in and I am able to create forum and topics, but how can I enable people to logon to the forum and create new entries ?

how can I manage what users are allowed to do ?

is there an admin area ?

thanks

ingo

[OAEErra]

One thing i’ve noticed is the formatting of posts. On all other forums (or even blog comments, or similar), when you type a post, and hit enter twice you get a new paragraph (like you would in Word, notepad or virtually anything else you use online or otherwise).

On BBPress (im using v2.0), that doesn’t seem to be the case.

Is it possible to make an adjustment to allow for this? I really don’t want to ask my users to use html paragraph tags just to make their posts look tidier. It looks messy with all lines of text with no spaces between them.

And in saying that it seems to work fine on this forum yet not on mines, so it’s possible? Can anyone tell me how to do it?

[rich]

i have an auto-generated (iffy wordpress search-able) list online as well

http://etivite.com/api-hooks/#bbpress

which is similar to the code posted above – forgot about array hooks so when bbPress 2.1 hits – it will be updated.

[hscoder]

if you want to know that how to use bbpress shortcodes, check this link :

http://www.authorcode.com/forums/topic/how-to-use-bbpress-shortcodes-in-wordpress-site/

[John James Jacoby]

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-no-admin/

—-

Prevent all users except super-admins from creating bbPress content when inside wp-admin.

This plugin has no UI.

[c0cc0bill]

I have a different theme and i had to change loop-forums, loop-replies, loops topics and bbpress-css.

After each upgrade rewrite these files. All right.

Now i put the 3 files and css in the root of my theme but no good.

I put the 3 files and css in the root of my theme and deleted ones from plugin, but no good.

I copied BBP-themes in the root of my theme and deleted from plugin and not good.

How do? Tx

[John James Jacoby]

This would take a considerable amount of effort, to have the same forum have several different themes and views.

[John James Jacoby]

You posted, I listened.

Version 2 of bbPress’s theme compatibility is now in the 2.1 plugin branch of code for your perusal. This second iteration removes the need to add current_theme_support() to your theme, and totally automates the process.

If your child or parent theme contains the template files that bbPress looks for, bbPress will use them. If not, bbPress will fall back on it’s default templates and styling. No more logic necessary.

Please test it. It’s new code with a new approach, so I’d like to get some fresh eyes on things right away to avoid a long beta period like 2.0 had.

Cheers!